obscene words from "Deadwood"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 11 18:45:03 UTC 2004


At 8:59 PM -0800 3/10/04, Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:
>>... People around here often refer to themselves or another
>>  > person as "Outraged of Chichester" or "Miffed of Glynde"--...
>>The classic example of this type is "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells",
>
>Why is it "of" and not either "from" or "in"?
>
So we can distinguish them from callers to sports talk radio.

Larry



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